The Bully/Transcript

(Opening shot; fade in to an early morning sky. Mr. Sun opens his eyes and rises up, smiling. Running in comes Kai-Lan giggling while playing with a red twirly whirly flower. She stops to wave at Mr. Sun.)

[Kai-Lan] “Mr. Sun! Ni-hao!”

(His smile grows wider and he releases sun fuzzies that tickle her.)

[Kai-Lan] (giggling) “Sun fuzzies!”

(She laughs more, then goes onto the grass on her back. Above her, a toy airplane flies making her look up.)

[Kai-Lan] (gasp) “Ooh. That looks super.”

(Kai-Lan runs after the toy airplane, and she stops to see Thorn with black controller. The toy airplane lands on his head.)

[Kai-Lan] “Oh. Ni hao, Thorn!”

[Thorn] “Hey, Kai-Lan! You saw my toy airplane?”

[Kai-Lan] “Yeah! It was flying through the air like a real airplane!”

[Thorn] “Kind of like a real airplane.”

[Kai-Lan] “Thorn. Yeye is taking us to the playground today.”

[Thorn] “Cool. I’m in!”

[Kai-Lan] “Let’s go-go-go!”

(Dissolve to Yeye, nine animatronics, Kai-Lan and her three friends walking down a sidewalk.)

[Kai-Lan] “I can’t wait to go to the park, Yeye!”

[Yeye] “Well, it’s not just any playground. It’s the playground I used to go to when I was a kid.”

[Jack] “Ooooh! Blast from the past!”

(They stop.)

[Rintoo] “Woah!”

(Cut to the playground; it is a big one, with colors such as green, yellow, and blue are mostly seen on every equipment.)

[Tolee] “It’s huge!”

[Cappy] “Yeah!”

(The gang walked through the open gate.)

[Yeye] “It’s a lot different than I thought…”

[Manny] “Different or not, we’re ready for some playtime and awesomeness!”

[Yeye] “Be safe, alright?”

[All thirteen] “Okay, Yeye!”

(The kids ran off into the playground. Cut to Thorn, Spike, Oggy, and Hoho at the jungle gym.)

[Spike] “Woah...jungle gym?”

[Hoho] “It looks so cool! Come on, try it!”

[Spike] “Uh...I think I’ll sit this one out.”

[Thorn] “Spike, you never back down from anything cool. What’s up now?”

[Oggy] “You okay?”

[Spike] “Well...when you go up, that’s when fear strikes, right?”

[Hoho] “Oh, I see. You don’t feel comfortable doing this.”

[Thorn] “It’s alright, bro. You don’t have to go up if you don’t want to.”

[Spike] “Really? Eh...alright.”

(Pan to Cappy, Rintoo, Felix, and Manny at the sand box.)

[Rintoo] “Cool! A sand box!”

[Felix] “What should me make this time?”

[Manny] “Ooh! How about a sandy replica of the Statue of Liberty?”

[Cappy] “And how are we gonna go about doing that?”

[Manny] “With a little imagination, of course!”

[Felix] “I suppose that can be possible. Let’s try it.”

(Two younger children walk by.)

[Little Boy] “Excuse me, Mr. Birdie. We want to help you too.”

[Little Girl] “Yeah! Can we help? Can we? Can we?”

(Rintoo, Felix, Cappy, and Manny looked uneasily at each other before turning their gazes back at the toddlers.)

[Cappy] “Yeah! Why not?”

(The children cheered.)

[Little Girl] “So what do we do first?”

[Felix] “Well, before we get to building, why don’t we tell you what we’re doing first?”

[Little Boy] “Uhhh, okay!”

[Manny] “So do you ever heard of the Statue of Liberty?”

[Little Girl] “Yeah!”

[Little Boy] “We went to see it with our mommy and daddy. It was big!”

[Little Girl] “Very big!”

[Rintoo] “Yeah. It is. So speaking of the Statue of Liberty, we’re going to build one out of sand.”

[Felix] “It’ll just be a smaller, sand-made replica of it.”

[Little Girl] “What does replica mean?”

[Felix] “A replica is a crafted version of something that is real.”

[Little Boy] “Oh. Like a replica of a race car?”

(The little boy pulls out a toy red race car.)

[Felix] “Yeah, kind of.”

[Little Girl] “Ooooh! Let’s get started now!”

[Rintoo] “Yeah!”

[Little Boy] “So what do we do first?”

[Felix] “First we make the base. Every building’s gotta have a base.”

(The little girl looks to the swing, where a bucket and small shovel is sitting.)

[Little Girl] “Oh. I left my bucket and shovel over there.”

[Cappy] “I’ll get it.”

[Little Girl] “Thanks, green guy.”

(Cappy goes over to the swing area to get the shovel and bucket. Just as he was about to go back, he bumped into a larger kid. He has fair skin, red hair, purple oval-framed glasses, and brown eyes. He wears a white T-shirt, dark gray gym shorts, and black shoes. This is Gander.)

(She and Tolee run off to find Cappy. Cut to the small kappa near the pond; he grabs a yellow flower and throws it into the water. Then he falls onto his bottom, crossing his arms, and still scowling. Kai-Lan and Tolee approached him.)

[Kai-Lan] “Cappy?”

[Tolee] “What happened?”

(No response from the angry kappa. Tolee thinks hard for a bit, as a wavering dissolve takes place. Next scene is during the episode from the original series “Beach Day”, where the four friends are at the beach. The koala kneels down near a pile of sand, while the other three work hard on a sand castle.)

[Tolee] “You remember when me, you, Rintoo, Hoho, and Yeye went to the beach?”

[Kai-Lan] “Oh yeah. And we met two crabs who wanted us to build a sand castle for them.”

[Tolee] “Yeah. And that wave washed away the sand tower I was working on three times and I got angry.”

[Kai-Lan] “Hmmm...maybe Cappy is mad about something.”

(Cut to frame all three.)

[Kai-Lan] “Cappy? What happened before you got mad?”

[Cappy] “Stupid Gander kid called me blind and then pushed me!”

[Tolee] “Gander? Isn’t he that bully that always comes here?”

[Cappy] “Yeah. You know him?!”

[Tolee] “Maybe, but he did nothing to me.”

(Just then, the bully kid comes by.)

[Gander] “What’s this? Are we making a little talking circle here? Oooh. Can I join?”

(The kappa immediately lowers his dander.)

[Cappy] “Gander. Where is the pail and shovel you took away from me?”

[Gander] “Why do you want to know, short stuff?”

[Cappy] “Because you took them away from me.”

[Kai-Lan] “Okay. Before someone gets hurt, why don’t we go back to do our things?”

[Tolee] “Yeah. Good idea.”

[Cappy] “But first, Gander, I would like you to give back the shovel and pail you took from me. Those belonged to a little girl.”

[Gander] “And why would I do that, greenie?”

[Cappy] “Because you’re a heartless little fool who knows nothing but to pick on little kids.”

(Gander stares at him with a dirty look, then raises his hand up. Cut to some birds perched on a tree branch; they stared down and slightly cringed when they heard a slapping noise. Fade to black. Fade in to the robots’ tower; it is now evening. Cut to the inside. Cappy sits on his bed with a huge red slap mark on the side of his face.)

[Cappy] “That Gander.”

(Ulysses levitates an ice pack onto the slap mark.)

[Cappy] “Ow! It’s still throbbing! Get that off me!”

[Ulysses] “Sorry, darling. I mean, that Gander kid you were speaking of sounds like bad news.”

[Cappy] “He is bad news!”

[Ulysses] “Oh goodness. Really?”

[Cappy] “Yeah. This huge slap mark is proof that he is no good at all.”

(Cut to frame the pair. Now Manny approaches.)

[Manny] “Sounds to me like you’ve got a bully after you, Capster. Well, he is never going to get away with that, is he? That’s why I’ve got ultimate tricks up my sleeve.”

(They heard someone coming up the stairs.)

[Manny] (hushed) “Just watch.”

(Felix comes in.)

[Felix] “Manny. I’m looking for my---”

[Manny] “Flying Beast Attack!!”

(At ‘attack’, he charges straight toward Felix, tackling him down to the floor.)

[Felix] “Manny! What are you doing to me?!”

(The manticore turns to Cappy and winks at him.)

[Manny] “See what I did there?”

[Cappy] “....Yes. Yes I did.”

(Cut to the next day at the park; Cappy, Manny, Ulysses, and Felix are at the sand box working on the statue. Just then, Gander comes by.)

[Gander] “Hey, cool. Can I destroy that?”

[Cappy] “Nope.”

[Gander] “Hey, you can’t tell me what to do, greenie!”

(He picks Cappy up by the arm.)

[Gander] “You can’t build junk! Have you forgotten you’re blind?”

[Cappy] “I’m not blind!”

[Gander] “Whatever.”

(Gander walks away still holding Cappy captive. He takes him to a pond.)

[Cappy] “Gander, let me go! I’m not blind!”

[Gander] “Heh. You can tell that to the fish.”

(The redhead drops Cappy into the pond. Manny flies over to fish him out.)

[Manny] “What a bully.”

(Cappy sighs. Dissolve to the slide; on top there stood Cappy and Manny and Gander shows up again.)

[Gander] “Oh. You want to go down the slide? Here, greenie. I’ll give you a little push.”

(More of a forceful push he gave Cappy, which caused him to fall off the slide. Dissolve to the swing area; Manny and Cappy sat next to each other and are about to swing when Gander shows up yet again.)

[Gander] “Hey, greenie. Want me to give you a push? Well...here you go!”

(He gives Cappy a forceful push which sends him flying off the swing seat and into the sand box. Manny flies over to help him up.)

[Manny] (icily) “Freak.”

(He narrows his eyes, gazing at Gander, who is swinging happily on the swing Cappy originally sat at. Dissolve to Cappy climbing up a tree when he gets pulled down by Gander, who is holding a tire.)

[Gander] “Greenie, wanna have fun together?”

(He stuffs the kappa into the tire and sends it rolling down the hill with a screaming Cappy inside. Cut to Cappy trying to sneak away from behind a tree. Gander is walking by when he noticed him and an eerie grin was on the redhead’s face. He grabs Cappy and pours a bucket of mud all over him.)

[Cappy] “Ewwww!!”

(Dissolve to Gander sitting near a bench, chewing gum. He noticed Cappy walking by and grabs him. He takes the wad out of his mouth and sticks it onto Cappy’s back, then presses him against a wooden fence. Cappy is stuck in place.)

[Cappy] “Hey! What are you doing?”

[Gander] “Having fun yet, greenie?”

(He laughs out loud. Dissolve to Cappy tied in ropes onto something long and metallic.)

[Cappy] “Hey! Hey! Wait! This is not fun! I’m not enjoying this!”

(Cut to frame him and Gander; the latter is riding his bike. A long antennae sticks out from the back with Cappy tied on it.)

[Gander] “Well, I am!”

[Cappy] “Are you...trying to get a long with me?”

[Gander] “No, just trying to have fun with you!”

(He laughs more. Cut to the robots tower at evening, then to Cappy sitting on his bed. This time, he has a black eye and the slap mark seems to fade. Ulysses levitates an ice pack to the injured part on Cappy’s face.)

[Ulysses] “Cappy, darling. This Gander kid is taking this a little too far. It’s time you teach that boy a lesson.”

[Cappy] “What can I do? Everytime I try to have a little talk about his behavior, I get…” (pointing to his black eye) “...something like these.”

[Ulysses] “Cappy darling, you’ve got a bully on your tail.”

~ (Song) ~

(Jack comes in hopping and prancing around the room.)

[Jack]

When you see you’ve got a bully on your tail

When you see you’ve got a bully on your tail

When you see you’ve got that bully and he doesn’t seem so goody

No likes, just go and tell him to take a hike

Yeah!

~ (Song ends) ~

(Ulysses and Cappy stared in shock.)

[Ulysses] “Uh, yes...uh, yeah...that’s what he meant.”

[Cappy] “Huh?”

[Ulysses] “Well, what Jack is trying to say is...if that bully bothers you any more, then you have to go and teach him a lesson. Tell him to take a hike or...to jump off a cliff or something!”

[Cappy] “Hmmm…”

[Ulysses] “Plainly, all you can do is just...teach him a lesson.”

[Cappy] “Teach him a lesson, huh?”

(He looks to the side, a slight devious look appears on his face. Cut to Felix in the living room, fixing a lamp. Cappy approaches him.)

(He whispers to his clone. Dissolve to a montage of the clone tormenting every kid on the playground in many ways; pouring mud into a kid’s shirt, pulling at a girl’s ponytail, giving a toddler a wedgie, taking away a boy’s toy car and throwing it into the pond, stealing an ice cream cone from a little girl which causes her to cry, making another child cry by kicking her in the shin, pushing a kid off a swing seat, stomping on a child’s sand castle and yet she cries over it, and pushing Gander into the pond. Of all the things that are happening, Golden Kunekune, who was feeding a baby bird, had witnessed it all and is not impressed in the slightest.)

[Golden Kunekune] “This is strange. Since when does Cappy ever liked to torment other kids for fun?”

(The moaning continues outside. Just then, a small arm breaks a hole in the door and tries to reach for the doorknob. Cappy breaks out in another horrified scream, and he huddles down to the floor in fear.)

[Cappy] “What is going on?! I hope this is just a bad dream!”

[Kai-Lan] (from o.s.) “It’s no dream, Cappy.”

(He looks up to see one zombie figure of Kai-Lan walking toward him.)

[Kai-Lan] “This is reality.”

(Cappy suddenly stood up with utter anger.)

[Cappy] “Aha! This is all a joke isn’t it?! But why?”

[Felix] “To get back at you.”

[Cappy] “What?!”

[Felix] “I found out from Golden Kunekune that you’ve been picked on by Gander and used that clone to hurt not just him, but other kids.”

[Tolee] “And it’s all just to teach you a lesson.”

[Cappy] “A brutal one, that is…But that was so stupid!”

[Felix] “Exactly. You may be tormented by an older kid, but you know revenge is never the answer.”